Capt'n John, that bottom right photo IS adjusted, even though it's still dark. The cat and the fake fur throw are much the same in value, even though the fake fur is brown and the cat is gray. I "upped" the brightness as well as the contrast a good bit, but even so, it probably wasn't the best choice for a picture. However, it's one of my favorites since she spends SO MUCH TIME in that chair and in that position!!

Thanks, Margo. Yes, Gray Soufflé gives her all to each and every quilt. Strands of her fur are sewn into many of the seams! She pre-tests all the batting and the backing. She examines the quilting while I'm doing it at the machine, sitting ON the quilt during the process!

All right, I detect a theme. Cats & Dogs, what's next? Love the pillow Carole!

Carole, Great job. Did you adjust the color of the cat in the lower right corner? Fun!

That looks cute! It will be perfect on the bed with your quilt.

Cute Carole! And it looks like Gray Soufflé is a great quilt inspector too!!

I finished my pillow. I used EQ Printable cotton satin fabric sheets, and since my copy of Photoshop Elements only arrived today, I did the photo adjusting using Paint Shop Pro V. 7 and Irfanview (a free program that allows for a lot of photo adjustments.) The fabrics are some that I used in my "Stars for a New Day" quilt, which I keep on my bed, so this pillow will now join the other pillows on that bed! The cat, Gray Soufflé fits right in, since she's usually there, anyway!

Love the barn quilt Nancy! Good work figuring out how to extend the edges.

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Thanks Margo! It was a fun, but challenging project. I had to learn a lot of what Jeanie is teaching the hard way--trial and error.

Nancy, I LOVE that project, and the name of your group is wonderful!!! Thanks so much for sharing that here!

I saw this quilt http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruthsloan/4836878496/in/pool-freshmodernquilts today and thought that it would be a great pattern with lots of blank spaces for displaying photos. Although this quilt looks complex, it is actually very easy to make using strip piecing.

On my profile, there is a photo of a group slice quilt of a barn scene that I made. My slice (center on bottom) was made using white fabric treated with BubbleJet and printed using my HP DeskJet printer. The slice just to the right of mine is a watercolor painting by the artist who painted the original barn scene used for this slice quilt.

Since my slice was larger than 8.5" x 11", I had to print my image slice in two parts and seam the parts together. Also, I had to seam my piece to the slices prepared by the other quilters. To avoid white spaces near the seams, I stretched just the edges of the scanned image by copying about a half inch from each edge and repeating it. I did not want to enlarge/distort the entire image. My seams were 1/2" to allow some wiggle room to match the surrounding slices.

FYI Jeanie - I posted a message about the error you are getting in the gallery.

Woo hoo! Looks GREAT Mary Kay!! (I tried to leave a comment in the gallery, but I'm getting an error whenever I try to leave comments there. )

Thank you! I forgot to give my dog credit. His name is Shade and he knows how to SIT (but that's about all).